Lost

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

I lost a world the other day.

Has anybody found?

You'll know it by the row of stars

Around its forehead bound.


A rich man might not notice it;

Yet to my frugal eye

Of more esteem than ducats.

Oh, find it, sir, for me!

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